Gorilla trekking is a once in a lifetime adventure that takes place in a few countries in Africa.
What is Gorilla Trekking
Gorilla Trekking is an adventure activity that involves hiking or walking on foot within the impenetrable forests of Africa looking for the endangered gorillas. Many people spend sleepless nights thinking of how the one hour encounter with the endangered mountain gorillas will be. It is true the one hour allowed to stay with the rare gorillas is a truly life adventurous experience very difficult to forget. It’s known as the most sensitive, breathtaking, and exciting.
You spend the one hour with mountain gorillas while observing their behaviors as well as taking photograph although a flash camera is not allowed. You will be in a group of eight people who are only allowed to track in each gorilla family and each group is guided by a well experienced ranger guide who is in charge of guiding you during the process of gorilla tracking, and they also help in giving you all necessary information on all forest flora and fauna. Exchanging eyes with gorillas in a distance of just about 7meters is a life time experience, just don’t wait to book your gorilla tracking safari with us you will never regret and if everyone could do it just ounce, the world would be a better place to live in. without exploring the gorilla wouldn’t be here at all, it’s the only thing that warranty their existence.Gratitude should go to the tourism board, ranger guide who monitor these apes time to time and the local community who live near the parks.
Where to Go Mountain Gorilla Trekking
Gorillas trekking is known to be the major tourist activity in any country where Gorillas are found. Gorillas earn a lot of foreign exchange – in Rwanda, the Gorilla permit cost US$ 1500, Uganda at US$800 among others.
Meeting Gorillas in their natural habitat is a life time which everyone should enjoy before death. That is why the number of visitors moving for Gorilla trekking increase every day amidst high trekking cost/ expensive Gorilla permits, Air tickets, visas and accommodation costs among others.
The major trekking destinations include Bwindi Impenetrable National park, Mgahinga national park, Virunga national Park and Volcanoes National park among others.
Looking into the eyes of the Gorillas is memorable. Meeting gorillas in their natural environment enable trekkers to take photos and films up close. Such photos can be uploaded on websites, bill boards and so on hence promoting business.
Why Go Gorilla Trekking
Gorillas themselves are entertaining or dramatic to amuse trekkers. Gorillas are found jumping from one tree to another to entertain visitors.
Gorillas are intelligent and are capable of using tools like sticks, stones and so on in their routine work. They can slow stones to the enemy, can use sticks to get fruits from trees, they can also build nests to sleep in.
They nurture their young ones just like human beings. The young ones are trained how to jump, climb, hunt, feed, run and so on. They do it to prepare them face future challenges.
Gorillas are among the rare primates which are found in few countries on African continent. They are unique and visiting them is a life time event which every human being should do before going for eternal life.
Gorillas stay in the wild and they stay in groups for security reasons and they fight in groups. Gorillas do not what anybody to challenge them so; trekkers are advised to remain humble when they visit the gentle giants.
Gorillas also communicate amongst themselves and they use different communication sounds in different circumstances. When attacked they make different sound from that when they land on the plenty sources of food.
Gorillas are treasured to extent of being treated by expert primatologist doctors -well known internationally. That testifies why Gorillas are worth visit!
The Gorilla Trekking Experience
During tracking, you may be surprised with sightings of some other forest dwellers like monkeys, birds, mammal species including buffaloes, warthogs, antelopes among others. These great tropical rain forests are rich in flora and fauna – with many plants and butter fly species. Whatever species is found in the forest, mountain gorillas remains the star attraction in Uganda, Rwanda and Congo.
Mountain Gorilla Trekking
Mountain gorilla trekking is carried out in only three countries that include Uganda, Rwanda and DRC. There are currently only about 1060 critically mountain gorillas remaining worldwide, and are distributed across
- the Virunga region with over about 600 mountain gorillas (Mgahinga National Park of Uganda, Volcanoes National Park of Rwanda and Virunga National Park of Democratic Republic of Congo) and
- the incredible Bwindi Impenetrable National Park with about 480 of the mountain gorillas (almost half of the world’s populations of these creatures).
Uganda
The fact that gorilla trekking in Uganda is conducted from two National Parks, this makes the country worth adding on your bucket list for African safaris or visiting for a memorable gorilla trekking safari.